Service comparison

CockroachDB vs. PlanetScale

CockroachDB vs. PlanetScale — reliability, API availability, and incident frequency head-to-head.

Last 90 days · 8 incidents total · Data via Pulsetic monitoring

Head-to-head

90-day summary

CockroachDB

cockroachlabs.com

Online
- 90-day uptime
  
  99.03%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  3
  
  2 major · 1 minor
- Median resolution
  
  39m
- Longest outage
  
  19h 40m
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PlanetScale

planetscale.com

Online
- 90-day uptime
  
  99.13%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  5
  
  2 major · 3 minor
- Median resolution
  
  32m
- Longest outage
  
  16h 59m
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Uptime over time

Availability across windows

Window	CockroachDB	PlanetScale	Δ
Last 24 hours	97.50%	100.00%	-2.50 pp
Last 7 days	99.64%	100.00%	-0.36 pp
Last 30 days	99.92%	99.82%	+0.10 pp
Last 90 days	99.03%	99.13%	-0.10 pp

Δ is percentage-point difference (CockroachDB minus PlanetScale). Higher is better.

Incidents 90-day

Severity breakdown

CockroachDB

3 total

2 major 1 minor
- Median resolution
  
  39m
- Longest outage
  
  19h 40m
PlanetScale

5 total

2 major 3 minor
- Median resolution
  
  32m
- Longest outage
  
  16h 59m

Recent activity

Last 5 incidents, side-by-side

CockroachDB
- Jun 9
  
  Unable to accept invites
  
  36m
  
  Minor
- May 8
  
  Degraded performance in one AWS us-east-1 availability zone
  
  19h 40m
  
  Major
- Mar 18
  
  Cloud Console Social Login Auth Unavailable
  
  39m
  
  Major
- Mar 1
  
  Cluster unavailability and degraded cluster operations in AWS me-central...
  
  10d 4h 39m
  
  Minor
- Feb 9
  
  Connectivity issues to Standard and Basic clusters on AWS
  
  12h 16m
  
  Major
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PlanetScale
- May 14
  
  There is an incident in PlanetScale GCP us-central1 region impacting Postgres database availability. We are actively investigating and will update as soon as we have more information.
  
  32m
  
  Major
- May 13
  
  Database operations degraded in eu-west-2
  
  47m
  
  Major
- May 8
  
  AWS use1-az4 thermal event
  
  16h 59m
  
  Minor
- Apr 8
  
  Errors with database webhooks
  
  15m
  
  Minor
- Apr 2
  
  Currently experiencing issues with creating/updating/deleting Vitess credentials
  
  14m
  
  Minor
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Bottom line

PlanetScale wins

PlanetScale edges out on 90-day uptime.

CockroachDB posted 99.03% vs. 99.13% for PlanetScale (Δ -0.10 pp). Incidents: 3 vs. 5 (-2).

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